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'I am terrified': Workers describe the dark mood inside federal agencies
"I would love to leave, but I don't know where I'd go," said one staffer.
President Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders seeking to overhaul how the federal government operates, from removing job protections to ending remote work to implementing a hiring freeze. | Francis Chung/POLITICO
By Liz Crampton, Nick Niedzwiadek, Kevin Bogardus, Nahal Toosi and Alice Miranda Ollstein
01/25/2025 04:00 PM EST
President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the federal workforce have injected a fresh wave of anxiety among employees across the bureaucracy stoking fears the president is coming for their jobs.
Just a few days into Trump's second term, some federal workers are contemplating quitting. Others are preparing to file grievances with their unions or moving communications with each other to secure platforms like Signal. Some, fearing they'll be caught up in the White House's purge of diversity programs, are leaving their names off of memos and documents they worry could be labeled as DEI-adjacent.
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